The Wonder Garden
John likes to arrive first. He enjoys standing quietly with a house before his clients arrive, and today, although he feels pinned beneath an invisible weight, he resolves to savor this solitary moment. It’s one of those overhauled ranches so common to Old Cranbury these days, swollen and dressed...
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John likes to arrive first. He enjoys standing quietly with a house before his clients arrive, and today, although he feels pinned beneath an invisible weight, he resolves to savor this solitary moment. It’s one of those overhauled ranches so common to Old Cranbury these days, swollen and dressed to resemble a colonial. White, of course, with ornamental shutters and latch
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Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780802123558 (0802123554)
Pages no: 368
Edition language: English
I'm sitting here after reading this book and looking at the four and five star reviews that have already been posted. I don't get it. I don't get this book with stories just ending haphazardly and the book just ending awkwardly. Stories are only partially told. I read about many problems each of the...
This book is a compilation of short interwoven stories. Some I understood, some I loved, some I found a bit weird. Certainly a different book to my normal reads
As they approach the gate Bethany thinks of the town, small and safe, awaiting their return. It is cloistered, claustrophobically familiar, but maybe